Padma Shri Professor Anil K Gupta is presently a visiting faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; after his retirement from there. He is Ph.D. (Management); MSc. Biochemical Genetics; Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Fellow, The World Academy of Art and Science, California 2001. He is also the Founder of 'National Innovation Foundation'.
His Mission is to expand the global as well as local space for innovations from and for grassroots, link ideas in informal and formal sector; to ensure recognition, respect and reward for creative communities, individuals, children and tech students etc., and to augment open innovations by individuals, institutions, corporations, and countries through frugal, flexible and friendly empathetic platforms.
He facilitated Festival of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (FINE) through NIFindia.org, hosted by the office of President of India at The President's House (March 19-23, 2018); pursues research on sustainable natural and institutional resource management, building global value chain so that the grassroots and youthful creativity gets its due; link technology with the problems of MSME, and other innovators unlocking corporate and public/private institutional creativity through empathetic open reciprocal innovations, support strategic organizations for making breakthroughs innovations; SRISTI awards young tech students.
Teaching: PPID with Hon'ble Former President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Globalizing and Resurgent India through Innovative Transformation (GRIT) with Bharat Ratna Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India (2008-12). He has pursued Shodhyatra, learning walk in every state of India once covering more than 5000 km during 1998-2016 and has started second round from 2017 along with Honey Bee Network volunteers.
Honours: Padma Shri, 2004, a national civil award by The President of India; CSIR Bhatnagar Fellowship 2018-21, Best Researcher award at IIMA, 2015; Humanistic Management Lifetime Achievement Award by the Humanistic Management Network, at the 73rd Annual meeting of the Academy of Management, USA, 2013; Ph.D Honoris Causa, San Martin de Porres University, October, Peru 2015; Doctor of Letters from Central University of Orissa, July, 2012; Hermes Award European Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation, Paris, 2012; Adjudged as one of the fifty most influential people in the field of Intellectual Property Rights around the world in 2003; Adjudged as one of the Star Personalities of Asia, Business Week, 2001; Apart from several other national and international honours, he is also member of many governmental and corporate bodies. Prof. Gupta is a widely published author.
He is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT, Kurukshetra and has devoted his career to building the power sector of India with over 42 years of experience in Thermal Power generation and efficiency enhancement.
He has worked across geographies to implement the latest technologies including Japan, USA, Canada and Thailand amongst the most prominent. Over the last 5 years, he has been working with State Electricity Boards and private organizations in India as an independent consultant.
For his contributions, he has received national and global recognition and several awards such as the USEPA, IEA, India Earth-care award for SAARC and the Lifetime Achievement Award by International Society for Automation.
Through his experience, he has helped setup the 8KW solar power plant for the school managed by Alok Charitable Trust in Gangagarh, enabling technology driven initiatives to run uninterruptedly. He also chairs the Alok Shiksha Samiti which is the Managing the school.
Mr. Arun Gupta has more than 25 years of experience in Financial Consulting. He operates a Financial Consultancy firm providing total financial solutions to large as well as Small & Medium Enterprises covering wide spectrum of industrial sectors.
He has earlier served Bank of India as Vice-President of the Merchant Banking division.
He is Managing Trustee of Alok Charitable Trust and also discharging duties as Manager of Lt. Alok Public School and S R B Inter College.
He is involved in various other social and charitable activities .
He was also associated with Diksha foundation our partner NGO working in Patna and Hilsa in Bihar as its Board member.